UK National Lotto #853

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 25th February 2004:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,199,260	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£98,438	10	£984,380	15.7%
5 match	£1,809	340	£615,060	9.8%
4 match	£76	17,678	£1,343,528	21.5%
3 match	£10	331,349	£3,313,490	53.0%
Totals	349,377		£6,256,458	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		1.2% fall	£21,035,366

Lotto HotPicks #171 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	12	£84,000	11.6%
Pick 3	£450	658	£296,100	40.8%
Pick 2	£40	8,624	£344,960	47.6%
Totals	9,294		£725,060	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £78.01.

The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 7 balls.

		Updated Frequencies			Since Last Appeared
Drawn	Order	Main	Bonus	Total	Main	Bonus	Either
1st	06	104	19	123	20	24	20
2nd	28	112	20	132	10	84	10
3rd	41	86	17	103	13	37	13
4th	38	133	23	156	4	1	1
5th	21	91	24	115	2	28	2
6th	34	100	17	117	10	214	10
Bonus	47	119	19	138	4	346	4
Total	215	745	139	884	63	734	60
Avg.	30.7	106.4	19.9	126.3	9.0	104.9	8.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 7 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £17.91. One in every 60.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.66% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,883,399.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 21 wins totalling £336.

From Saturday 12th July 2003 onwards, Camelot has completely refused to issue per-draw sales figures for any of their individual games, despite continuously doing so for more than 8 years prior to that date. They blamed the media for only concentrating on the main Lotto game sales (which have been falling steadily for years), which seems to be a poor excuse to me. However, games with variable prize tiers such as the main Lotto can have their sales figures reverse-calculated to within a few pounds, which is what I have done.

Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 23rd August 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #854 (Saturday 28th February 2004) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #852 (Saturday 21st February 2004) [2 jackpot winners]

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